God forbid he be one of us
from E.J. Dionne Jr.: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/feb/25/god-forbid-he-be-one-of-us/
Saturday, February 25, 2012
They say that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and if he isn't, he's a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he's a Nazi, but on most others he's merely a socialist. His especially creative opponents see him as having a "Kenyan anti-colonial worldview," while the less adventurous say he's an elitist who spent too much time in Cambridge, Hyde Park and other excessively academic precincts.
Whatever our president is, he is never allowed to be a garden-variety American who plays basketball and golf, has a remarkably old-fashioned family life and, in the manner we regularly recommend to our kids, got ahead by getting a good education.
Please forgive this outburst. It's simply astonishing that a man in his fourth year as our president continues to be the object of the most extraordinary paranoid fantasies. A significant part of his political opposition still cannot accept that Obama is a rather moderate politician quite conventional in his tastes and his interests. And now that the economy is improving, short-circuiting easy criticisms, Obama's adversaries are reheating all the old tropes and clichés and slanders . . . more
We are blessed with the freedom to say whatever we want about our president. But those who cast Obama as something other than one of us don't understand him — and don't understand what it means to be American.
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well-oiled RW media machine so the lunatic fringe can get their orgastic jollies on. 
called GWB names during his 8 years in office. It seems they only care about Republican POTUSs...Dems are fair game. 